Today's News

Five veterans were honored for their service to the nation by Haven Hospice Veteran Volunteers who thanked them and presented with certificates, pins and lap quilts.

They are Joseph Holubek of Chiefland, Max Mundell of Morriston, Ray Helping of Archer, Wilbur McCallister of Williston and Lawrence Green of Old Town.

During World War II, Holubek served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and Green served in the U.S. Merchant Marine. Mundell and McCallister both served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. Helping served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.

Real-time water quality data for Fanning Springs is now available to the public on a new dashboard. Fanning Springs is a second magnitude spring in Levy County continuously monitored by the Suwannee River Water Management District. The District began collecting continuous data in 2014 as a result of a collaboration with the US Geological Survey (USGS) and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP).

The Levy County School Board has hired a new food service coordinator and like her predecessor, she is very passionate about what she does.

“She’s very enthusiastic and very qualified,” Levy County School Board Assistant Superintendent of Administration Jeff Edison said of Julia Oberst, the Bronson resident who was hired for the position following Becky Tyson’s departure.

Right behind the trees and brush that line U.S. 19 south of Chiefland, work has been under way since 2014 on a hog and sheep farm and now the land’s owner says in documents filed with the Levy County Building Department that it plans to build a pork processing facility that would initially provide 20 jobs and when doubled in size at a later date, to employ 40 people.

A 5-year-old girl was killed and her mother and brother were injured by a leaping sturgeon while boating on the Suwannee River on Thursday, July 2, at 8:47 p.m., according to a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission release.

She is the first fatality from a sturgeon collision on the Suwannee River. Earlier this year a 14-year-old girl was injured by a sturgeon on the Suwannee and the day after the fatal accident, two people were injured in a sturgeon collission on the Santa Fe River.

The Levy County Commission adopted assessments for the coming year that call for property owners to pay the same rate they have for the past two years.

With little fanfare they approved a fire assessment of $90 for residential parcels, an emergency medical services assessment of $119 for residences and a solid waste assessment of $25 per parcel. They also adopted a long list of road district assessments that vary based on the amount of work to be done maintaining and mowing.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is urging the public to be aware of nesting sea turtles while they celebrate this holiday weekend.

FWC law enforcement officers on patrol this weekend will explain the unintended consequences that can occur when nesting turtles are disturbed by beachgoers. They also will explain the laws in place to protect these turtles.